Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, -while Seydlitz and others were calling on their countrymen to quit, Paulus was Junker-silent. But the Russians and his fellow officers labored to convince him that Hitler's Germany was lost...
...months, while Seydlitz and others were calling on their countrymen to quit, Paulus was Junker-silent. But the Russians and his fellow officers labored to convince him that Hitler's Germany was lost...
Because he likes "to work with men and to watch organizations grow," Lt. Col. A.L. Tuttle, USA, Retired, quit Harvard recently to accept an appointment at Father Flanagan's Boys' Town, at Omaha, Nebraska, where he will head a military training unit. Registered as a first-term Freshman, Lt. Col. Tuttle was at 60 the oldest undergraduate at Harvard...
...seventh-place Brooklyn Dodgers, who were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co. for a half-million dollars. He talked the banking gentlemen out of another $300,000, peeled off dizzy amounts for new players, promoted crowd-drawing grudge fights with every club in the National League. When he quit Flatbush for the Army three years ago (the colonel's discharge is in the offing), he had won a pennant and paid off a million dollars in debts...
Frank Joseph Hague Jr., lanky, 40-year-old son of Jersey City's arrogant boss, quit his $9,000 judgeship in New Jersey's highest court (Errors and Appeals), landed a new job. Appointed judge in 1939 by Hagueman Governor A. Harry Moore (who remarked at the time, "I know this will make his dad happy"), young Frank had no chance at reappointment by G.O.P. Governor Walter Edge, snapped at an offer to do legal work in New Dealer Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration. New salary bracket: $3,600 to $4,200 yearly...